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<html>it pushes in so easily</html>\n\n[[deafening silence|controlcenter]]

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<html>craggy and forked moist, rock-skinned branches\ntangling themselves within each other, </html>[[a curiosity indeed|hanging]]

<html>a slanted panel in front with an array of objects and textures laid out before you\nabove the panel, protrusions, segmented, forming...</html> [[words?|message]]\n\n\na [[grip|lever1]] a [[grip|lever2]]\n<html>with legs</html> <html>small</html> [[fingers|switches]] <html>with legs</html>\n\n[[circle|button1]] [[circle|button2]] [[circle|button3]]\n\n[[circle|button4]] [[circle|button5]] <html>thin</html> [[crevice|crevice]]\n\n<html>perhaps you can be enlightened further by </html>[[the rest of the room|controlroom]]

<<set $illuminate = false>><html>here is my gift of sight\neverything is clear\neverything is </html>[[alight|end]]

<html>swirled and curled, contorted papery strips, </html>[[a curiosity indeed|hanging]]

<html>you feel the weight in your hands</html>\n<<set $hasCrowbar = true>>\n [[tip|controlroom]]\n<html> forked\na lengthy strip of metal extending and curving around to end in a</html>

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<html>Let me give you the gift of</html> [[sight|stillness]]<html>.</html>

<html>you can curl your fingers around it and</html> [[pull|lever1effect]]\nor [[leave it behind|controlcenter]]

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<html>it budges a slight bit, loosens\nbut remains rigid and\n\n...</html> [[nothing|controlcenter]]

<html>raindrops land on your clothes, hanging tightly to fabric strands\n\nyour teeth, ears, head hum with a powerful and shaking, deep and resonant humming from the right</html>\n[[pointed|pointed]] <html>leaves fold over themselves creased leaves\nrounded leaves gooey</html> [[globules|globules]] <html>leaves something substantially more</html> [[solid|platform]] <html>leaves\n leaves\n sssssssssssssllsllss leaves \n rsssttsssss rs rst\ns s tss ffssrrs stssrs\n ssss rrs a rustling</html> [[mosaic|rustle]] <html>of leaves</html>\n[[papery cups|cups]]\n<html>rough and spindly fingers converge into rough</html> [[arms|spindly]] <html>leaves\n leaves leaves branches\nleaves branches leaves leaves\n branches leaves branches branches\n leaves branches leaves\nleaves branches leaves leaves leaves leaves</html>

<html> a gold-framed painting of sailboats\n\nhot piping banana bread on the counter\n\n reassuring hum of the heater in the background\n\nahh, </html>[[home|lights]]

<html>the syrupy concoction fondles your fingers\nand clings, clings desperately despite your efforts to pull away,\n</html>[[a curiosity indeed|hanging]]

<html>somewhat rubbed away</html>\nTO REMOVE BARRIER\nPULL T E RED LEV R\nP SH THE BLU B TON\n N KEY TH GREEN M RK R\nDO NOT D GE E PM N\nL STEN F R THREE CLI KS\n<html>there's</html> [[nothing|controlcenter]] <html>more</html>

<html>delicate tube cups, micro-hairy fuzz lining the outside with a flat leafy flap on top, </html>[[a curiosity indeed|hanging]]

<html>you reach for the routine light switches you have flicked many times before\n\n</html>[[flick on|alight]] <html>or</html> [[flick off|touchstone]]

<html>as large as your palm, a perfect circle, a bit of stickiness on the surface\na mesa lifted from the metal, so easy to </html>[[push it|button3effect]]\n<html>or do you </html>[[leave it|controlcenter]]

\n <html>you follow\n the long plush</html>\n<<if $posts_visited eq 2>>[[onwards|door]]<<else>>[[onwards|post]]<<endif>> <html>svelte\n onwards fabric\n rope</html>

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<html>as large as your palm, a perfect circle\na mesa lifted from the metal, so easy to </html>[[push it|button2effect]]\n<html>or do you </html>[[leave it|controlcenter]]

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c r e a a a [[k...|pitterpatter]]

<html> a muffled, dull ka chunk\n\na thick platform: hypothermic, artificial, too manufactured to blend in with the leafy potpourri\n\nyou can</html> [[clamber on|kachunk]] <html>or</html> [[search endlessly|hanging]]

<html>it pushes in so easily\n\na muffled dong sound\nding</html>\n[[ding|controlcenter]]

touchstone

<html>ka chunk\nka chunk\nka </html>[[foooooooosh|controlcenter]]

<html>ptchtchtch KRSHHH\nKRSHHH</html>\n[[foooooooooosh|controlcenter]]

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<html>screeeeeeeeech\n\nit unzips easily into torn sections of skin\nyou bite into the center cone\n\nits melting sweetness and melting texture is scrumptious, so scrumptious you could reach for</html> [[another|pitterpatter]]\n\n <html>screeeeeeeeech\na cry of </html><<replace "anger?">>... <html>confusion</html><<endreplace>>\n<html>or even piqued interest\nmaybe you should try </html>[[sharing|distance]]

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<html>feel around with your hand</html>\nmore pipe pipe\noctagonal protrusion\npipepipepipep\n ipepipe\n p\n [[warm|lever]] i\n p\n pipepipepipe\n i\n p\n e

<html>a circular piece of metal pressed in and indented,\npolished with more finesse than the surrounding steel\nsmall, thin vertical section missing from the center\nwhat can you </html>[[do|controlcenter]]\n\n<<if $hasKey eq true>><html>what about your </html>[[jagged metal chip|opencrevice]]<<endif>>

<html>for Kar and Snow White\n\nthanks\n\nto Porpentine and Anna Anthropy for their basic introductions to Twine\n\nto Leon Arnott's Glorious Trainwrecks blog for source code for macros and animation effects\n\nto you for playing</html>

<<set $random1 = either(1,2)>><<timedremove 3s>><html>fssssssssshhhhh</html><<endtimedremove>>\n\n<html>t h e h e a t\n</html>\n\n<<if $random1 eq 1>><html>a curtain of braided twine/leaf medley</html><<else>><html>broad leaf flesh that you unceremoniously pushed away</html><<endif>>\n\n<html>drippy moisture, syrupy cloying soup enriching your clothes\n\nwetness wetness\n wetness wetness your hand is wet\nwet moisture moist leaf\n slushy air\nwetness\n\nentwined, long and gnarled </html><<replace "bristly bodies">><html>roots</html><<endreplace>> <html>threaten to trap your legs\nyou step on them and go forth</html>\n [[a root|screeech]]\n <html>squish, a peel</html>\n[[a root here|screech]]\n <html>slumps of leaf mess</html>\n [[here, a root|screech]] <html>\n a root underneath this root</html>

<html>impassable</html>\npipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe\n pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe\npipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe\npipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe\npipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe\npipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe\npipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe\n pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe\npipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe\npipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe\npipe pipe pipe a gap pipe pipe\npipe pipe large enough pipe pipe\npipe pipe pipe for [[your hand|reach]] pipe\npipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe\npipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe\npipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe\npipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe

<<set $hasKey = true>><html>it's not much bigger than your finger\n\nthe rips and uneven edges in the metallic chip feel purposeful\nrippling sharply like a child's caricature of mountains\nwith the strip of peaks ending in a flat coin\n\n<html>you</html> [[take it|controlroom]]

Edward Wang

<html>you can apply brute palm force but</html> [[it will not do|controlroom]]\n\n<<if $hasCrowbar>><html>that forked tipped </html>[[metal will do just fine|breakit]]<<endif>>

<html>push the jagged edges </html><<replace "in">>\n\n<html>each inch s t a b s in</html><<becomes>>\n\n<html>inch by inch</html><<becomes>>\n\n<html>only the flat coin refuses to enter</html><<becomes>>\n\n[[turn it|turnkey]]<<endreplace>>

<<set $posts_visited += 1>><<if $posts_visited eq 2>><html> Another</html><<endif>>\n <html> cold\n polished and s m oo t h\n a perfect sphere, edgeless\n unblemished perfection (until now) </html>\n\n a <<replace "thing you can grip">><html>cylindrical post supporting the sphere</html><<endreplace>>\n\n\n<html>brushed</html> [[velvet|velvet]]

<html>if you try to eat it, it's</html> [[tasteless|pitterpatter]]\n\n[[but you could peel it|peel]]

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<<set $direction = 0>><html>screeeeeeeeech\n\nthe bruised fruit is snatched out of your hand\n\nscreeeeeeeeech\nit calls\nit calls for you, like a rallying beacon\n\nthe shrill cries echo into the di s t</html> a n c [[e...|heat]]

<html>t o u c h </html> [[s t o n e|credits]]

<html>Rounded\nbold, heavy\nridges\nc\n a\n s\n c\nading \nas your fingers slide down the surface\n\nsuddenly the ridges end (abruptly) and it is</html> [[flat bottom|plain]]

<<set $random1 = either(1,2)>><<set $random2 = either(1,2,3,4)>><<set $random3 = either(1,2)>><<set $random4 = either(1,2,3)>><<set $random5 = either(1,2)>><<set $random6 = either(1,2,3,4)>><html>incessant constant unpunctuated pitter patter pitter patter above below everywhere\n chirrrrp chirrrp chrrp\n rrusssttle russtle\n\na fetid, decaying odor infiltrates your nose\n\nhooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo</html>\n<html>leaves</html>\n <<if $random1 eq 1>><html>flimsy, toothed leaf edges make way for you</html><<else>><html>twirled spindly appendages encircle your fingers</html><<endif>>\n<html>wet</html> [[leaves|where]] <html>feel up against your hands</html> [[leaves|where]]\n<<if $random2 eq 1>><html>thousands of sensual caresses</html><<else>><<if $random2 eq 2>><html>miniscule dew droplets</html><<else>><<if $random2 eq 3>><html>hundreds of pungent thin tender silky strips</html><<else>><html>flitting aggressive confetti flakes whisk past your face</html><<endif>><<endif>><<endif>> [[leaves|where]] <html>smooth branches</html>\n <html>h u g e</html> [[leaves|where]] <html>beads of water flick o f f</html>\n[[leaves|where]] <html>leafy</html> <<if $random3 eq 1>><html>a veiny, spongy leaf</html><<else>><html>long needle threads like a woman's hair</html><<endif>>\n [[leaves|where]] <html>something solid, pliable, </html>[[fleshy|fleshy]]\n<html>you're walking through a salad</html> [[leaves|where]]\n [[leaves|where]] \n<html>ohoooohaww hawwwww</html>\n<html>scratchy, brittle trunk</html>\n <<if $random4 eq 1>><html>gossamer lace patterns cling eagerly to your legs</html><<else>><<if $random4 eq 2>><html>stiff, curled, rolled leaves retreat from your touch</html><<else>><html>bulky, chunky leaf tendrils attempt to barricade you</html><<endif>><<endif>> [[maybe leaves|where]]\n\n<<if $random5 eq 1>><html>stubborn, giant hair brush bristles push past your feet</html><<else>> <html>pricks and thorns poke unsettlingly</html><<endif>>\n<<if $random6 eq 1>><html>cracking twigs</html><<else>><<if $random6 eq 2>><html>some organic cushioning supports your step</html><<else>><<if $random6 eq 3>><html>crushed and wet miscellaneous flora</html><<else>><html>light-hungry small leaves</html><<endif>><<endif>><<endif>>\n\n<html>chitter chitter squeak squeak\n\nssksh skssh sksshhh as you move\n</html>

<html>sound sinks into every other object, dissipating\nwhatever</html> [[curiosity|hanging]] <html>has disturbed the leaves has disappeared</html>

<html>ka-chunk ka-chunk ka-chunk\n\neverywhere on your body as you climb on\nrounded dewy wetness collides with cold and unliving, unfeeling and gritty flatness\n\n\ntshhhhhhhhhhhhhh</html>\n\n<html>hot breath is ejected out of the space in front\nKLUM KLUM proclaims the floor as you walk\nklum klum your steps are ringing forth</html>\n\n\n<html>the belched air blows around you</html>\n\n[[frigid cylindrical bar|guardrail]] <html>to your left</html>\n[[frigid cylindrical bar|guardrail]] <html>to your right</html>

<html>a surface, grainy and ingrained\n\n thousands of straight lines texture the surface, hashed this way and that\n\ncurved shavings crawling on\nan unsmooth surface\n\narranged almost with\ndeliberate\n\nprecision...?\n\nwith pressure the surface bends inward, gives way slightly\n\nthen it ends (abruptly)\nagain rounded\nrigid\nsolid waves, rolling bumps\n c\n a\n s\nc\nading</html>\n\n[[there's nothing more|unrelenting]]

<<if $direction eq 0>><html> screeeeech</html><<endif>><<if $direction eq 1>><html> screeeeech screeeeeeeeeeech</html><<endif>><<if $direction eq 2>> <html> screeeeechscreeeeech SCREEEEEEECH</html><<endif>>\n\n<html>careful don't get</html> [[lost|heat]]

<<set $blueButton = true>><html>it pushes in so easily</html>\n\n[[click|controlcenter]]

<html>a rope thing\nbut this one is frigid\nand will not bend or give way but for itself\nat perfect perpendicular angles</html>\n\n<html>t tandonwards...</html>\n<html>w </html><html>a\n</html><html>isting</html> <html> h\n </html><html>thiswayand t</html>\n\n<html>something flows inside, shaking, rumbling,</html> [[contained|pipewall1]]

<html>it shatters KRZZSHHHTINKTINKTINK\na small jingle ends the cacophanous cadence\n\npowdery bits collect on your fingers\npieces clink on the ground in miserable disarray</html>\n\n<html>you can reach in <html> and feel the disjointed</html> jjj agggedp\n ieces ha\n n\n ging...\n\n\nan [[orderly jagged edge|key]]

<html>For all you know is</html> blackness\n\n<html>it's chilly here\nartificial, dustless, forceless\nstillness.\n\nyet you feel</html>\n\n<html>a faint, beckoning breeze from the</html> [[right|unrelenting]]

<html>it pushes in after some application of pressure</html>\n\n<html>ka chunk\nka \nchunk\n\nka</html>\n[[fooooooooosh|controlcenter]]

<<set $illuminate = true>><html>have you found your own sight?\n\nyou are comfortable in blackness\ngo forth and</html> [[illuminate|end]]

<html>as large as your palm, a circle, a miniscule chip on the side\na scratched surface\na mesa lifted from the metal, so easy to </html>[[push it|button5effect]]\n<html>or do you </html>[[leave it|controlcenter]]

<html>not warm, just not heat-draining\na cylinder, conveniently sized for your hand to wrap around\nit can move, but only forward or backward toward you</html>\n\n[[pull it|kssh]]

<html>it's something grippable, firm\nperhaps you want to</html> [[leave it be|pitterpatter]]\n<<replace "whatever's holding on doesn't want to let it go">>\n\n<html>it comes off,\na plump, curved C-shaped fruit, potentially squishable and mashable in your hands</html>\n<html>it's</html> [[ripe|eat]]\n<<endreplace>>

[[up...|hanging]]\n<html> b\n\n m\n\n i\n\nl\n\n c\nclimb</html>

<html>with all the smothering lushness, it's a wonder you're not drowning\nin leaves\n\nyou make the choice of where to go, where to move your feet</html>\n [[forward|pitterpatter]]\n [[left|pitterpatter]] [[right|pitterpatter]]\n [[backward|pitterpatter]]\n\n<html>underneath your feet, you feel the squashing of a moist, decaying fruit</html>

<<set $redLever = true>><html>ptchtchtch SHHUUUUUUUUUU ka chunk ka chunk ka chunk\nka chunk\nka chunk\nk a chunk\nclick</html>\n[[foooooooooosh|controlcenter]]